Month: April 2016

Video highlights Birdsville Track and other sites as far SE of it as the Great Ocean Road

Hi people,

A nice set of video highlights which includes many tips from the well known Peter Waanders (Bellbird Birding Tours). Including such beauties like Short-tailed, Thick-billed and Eyrean Grasswrens, Rufous Bristlebird, Grey Falcon, Gibberbird, Cinnamon and Copperback Quail-thrushes and Shy Heathwren!

Thanks Peter!

ibc.lynxeds.com/news/video-highlights-birdsville-track-great-ocean-road-australia

Best regards,

Pieter de Groot Boersma

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Conservation India

Conservation India has published this very good ethics guide for wildlife photographers.

www.conservationindia.org/resources/ethics

Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835

PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.

Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award, 2004.

With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.

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bird guides on iTunes

Hi all,

I’m sure this has been done to death before, but I am new to Apple devices
and would like to get some comments/recommendations on the various bird
guides that are available in the app store.

I’m pretty good with the visual stuff, but hopeless with bird calls, so
would be particularly interested in guides that are strong in that area i.e.
ones that would be useful to improve my call recognition.

TIA and sorry if we’re going over old ground again..

Paul.

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FTS (Pacific Swifts) and White-throated Needletails

G’day Everyone

Looks like both our migrant swifts have departed, and it looks as though the leading WTNT are just south of Japan on their way to Siberia.

Many people have sent me their daily or seasonal observations, but some have not, so I would appreciate receiving those reports in the next month or so.

This year most of the FTS appeared to concentrate in Qld, with very few reports from WA and SA and for much of the middle of the season they were not in most of the NT either. Well, they were not where observers who report them were.

Many thanks for your collaborative effort. The annual report will be posted when I have all the records in.

Mike Tarburton

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On seeing Turquoise Parrots

*ON SEEING TURQUOISE PARROTS*

The little parrots flutter down, like gilded leaves just shed

Their wings edged opalescent blue with a brilliant flash of red

They disappear amidst the grass to feed upon the ground

Reaching, picking, crunching, scratching but making not a sound.

A common fright, they quickly rise to an ancient cypress tall

Concerned alarm broadcast around with a shrill excited call

They perch so still and silent as paying not a heed

Then on some unseen signal they disappear at speed.

I hope again to see these little jewels extant and free

But have this awful feeling that maybe this won’t be

Their innocence and beauty so tragically passé

It seems to me that they belong to a time that’s slipped away.

*Geoff Ryan*

2011

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